Constipation during pregnancy: Avoid botanical medicines
with strong laxative or purgative actions; choose botanicals
that act as aperitives, bulking agents, or autonomic
visceral relaxants specific for the gastrointestinal tract
such as flax seed, psyllium seed, taraxicum officinalis
(dandelion), rumex crispus (yellow dock), nepeta cataria
(catnip), and viburnum opulus (cramp bark).
-Mary Bove, ND, LM, The Birthkit, Winter 1998
Reprinted from Midwifery Today E-News (Vol 2 Issue 31 August 2, 2000)
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